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September 26, 2017, 12:20 pm
In this advanced keying tutorial for Blackmagic Fusion, longtime VFX artist Simon Ubsdell addresses a common problem: edges too brightly lit, along with light wrap that makes compositing a challenge. Learn how to build custom keyers using Fusion's node-based compositing that solve the problem more quickly and more completely than traditional layer-based approaches.

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September 26, 2017, 4:50 am
This is Allan McKay. Welcome to Episode 98! I’m speaking with Nicolas Prothais an Animator from Disney. This is a fun Episode. Nicolas was at the IAMAG Master Classes. He is an awesome and talented artist. He’s worked anywhere from Disney to Double Negative; and huge projects like John Carter and Iron Man 2. He’s definitely well versed and well traveled.

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September 25, 2017, 11:44 am
othing’s worse than lazy titles. Minimalist titles, maximalist titles – anything’s better than someone slapping some semi-opaque words down over the first scene of the movie or TV show.

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September 25, 2017, 4:35 am
Developed in cooperation with AJA, the Avid Artist DNxIV is a smaller and more portable version of the Avid Artist DNxIQ rack unit announced earlier this year. It features a number of inputs and outputs for both video and audio, such as 12G SDI, HDMI, analogue audio input, and audio output for 5.1 or 7.1 surround monitoring.

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September 25, 2017, 4:35 am
How do you tell a story? If you're a filmmaker you know that you have so much more than the written word at your disposal. You have dialogue, camera movement, framing, costuming, set design, and editing all there waiting to inform and entertain your audience. But there is one very powerful narrative element that should never go unnoticed on any film production: color.

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September 24, 2017, 5:53 pm
If you've spent any time in Adobe After Effects, chances are you've played around with the Echo effect, which basically just stacks frames from different times in the layer to create "streaking" or "ghosting." This produces some pretty cool looking images, but if you want it to affect something specific, you'll need to know how to isolate and apply it to a single part of your frame or a specific object.

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September 23, 2017, 8:36 am
This is Art of the Cut’s second interview with Eddie Hamilton, ACE. The first one was about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Hamilton’s other previous work includes co-editing Kick-Ass with Oscar-winner, Pietro Scalia, ACE, and editing X-Men: First Class among many others.